[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Virtualization/containers: introduction

[Eric W. Biederman]

Hubertus Franke <frankeh at watson.ibm.com> writes:


> Kirill brought up that VPS can span a cluster..
> if so how do you (Kirill) do that? You pre-partition the pids into allocation
> ranges for each container?
> Eitherway, if this is an important feature, then one needs to look at
> how that is achieved in pspace (e.g. mod the pidmap_alloc() function
> to take legal ranges into account). Should still be straight forward.

Actually legal ranges already exist in the form of min/max values.
So that is trivial to implement.


Eric